| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake. ji ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. AROU Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding... | |
| 1846 - 302 pages
...tear, — For me weep rather thou in calm divine ! ABOU BEN ADHEM. BY LEIGH Hf.\T. Abou Ben Adhem (rcay his tribe increase) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, — Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, — An Angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding... | |
| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...God, be inscribed in letters of light upon the tablet of your hearts. ABOU BEN ADHEM. BY LEtOH HUNT. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke, one night, from a deep dream of peace, A ad saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An Angel writing... | |
| George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...Of PATIENCE nursing HOPE — the Angel and the Child ! ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL.— LEIQB Hour. ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace... | |
| Erskine Neale - 1849 - 334 pages
...it from the Eastern Apologue, with which I venture to conclude. ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOC BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night...moonlight of his room, Making it rich, and like a lily's bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold :— Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...illustrates happily the train of thought which his present book suggests. Wimay as well transcribe it : — " Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase,) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight, in his room. Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold : Exceeding... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 320 pages
...refresh'd with food, The first time since thy voice had marr'd my solitude." ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold : — Exceeding... | |
| George Harris - 1849 - 540 pages
...reto avoid it in future. J>. DS ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. (From Poems by Leigh Hunt.) AJJOU BBN ADHEM (may his tribe increase) Awoke one night from...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and lik« » lily in bloom, An AQge' writing in a book of gold : Exceeding... | |
| John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 pages
...article, slight as it may be, will possess a positive value. uAbou Ben Adhcm (may his tribe increase I) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold; Exceeding... | |
| 1856 - 396 pages
...ending Dec. 1854. MF COWDF.RT, Chairman of (he Financial Committee. ABOU BEN ADIIEM.— BY LEIQH HUNT. Abou Ben Adhem, (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of hia room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. ' Exceeding... | |
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